Select Any Catalogue Role is the Way to Go . From 9i the Select Any Table privs will not give u acess to the V$ Views .. HTH Cheers Ganesh On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:58:23 +0530, Chirag DBA <chiragdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Friends..!! > > How to grant select to a user on DBA_ and V$ views? > > Grant Select any table to USER1; will do that? > or I need to give select any catalogue role? > >